broomstix

Hello Everyone.

I am in search of two blocks. must be easy to paint. You see I have two bee hives and would like to put quilt blocks on each one.
Thinking about 3 to 4 colors only.

thanks for your help .

Yvonne

Prism99

How about Hold in the Barn Door? Here are some images:
https://www.google.com/search?q=hole..._AUIBigB&dpr=1

And maybe a Bear Paw since bears like honey? Images:
https://www.google.com/search?q=hole...aw+quilt+block

It's easy to limit number of colors for both of these blocks.

Tartan

How about Grandmother's Flower Garden blocks? The hexagons are like honeycomb cell shapes.

Bree123

Sorry for the dumb question, but what do you mean about painting them? Sounds cool.

BETTY62

Those will be the cutest bee hives ever. Please post pictures of the completed project.

Material Witness

Bree123, she means to paint onto her bee hives like barn quilts you see on a quilt trail.

ManiacQuilter2

I like tartan idea of painting hexagons. You could make a template from a file folder or cereal box.

feline fanatic

Honey Bee!!!

http://www.quilterscache.com/H/HoneyBeeBlock.html

Bree, she is doing like a barn quilt and going to paint one to mount on her bee hives. At least I hope. I don't think I would recommend painting directly on the hive. I think the smell of the paint might make the bees unhappy. Also if you have a box that you need to eliminate from the hive for any reason or move around you will lose your quilt block. I think painting it on a separate surface and leaning against the hive or putting some sort of mount on the hive to hold it would be best. It can't be permanently mounted because you need to get into the lower boxes to inspect them. Also as the season progresses you will want to put a queen excluder in and add more boxes of frames as the hive grows.

I have bee hives too. Or I should say my DH does. He is the beekeeper, I just take advantage of the honey, wax and the yummy bee air. :-)

DOTTYMO

How about stars to depict the evening sky.

GramE

i vote for this one!